Universal Jobmatch – List of fake ’employers’ (Part 1)

Ipswich Unemployed Action begins with Part 1 of ‘Fake Employers’ on Universal Jobmatch.

What is a “fake employer”? This is any vacancy that will never result in getting a job; the company might exist but may live off revenue from CV Library or Indeed affiliate schemes – or Google Adsense advertisements. In more cases than not, it doesn’t exist, and is to steal personal information or profit from selling your information.

Fake employers types include:-

1.  Relay Ads – Just posting other job vacancies (whether the original advert job exists or not) usually to promote their own job website, with intention of jobseekers clicking on a Google Adsense advert along side or uploading a CV through CV Library.
2. Fake Job Adverts – Creating fake adverts to entice people on to their website to get revenue through Google Adsense, CV library or Indeed affiliate scheme. This is identical to the above type except they invent job vacancies rather than copy and paste existing jobs.
3. Personal Data harvesting – When clicking through you get a holding page with a web form for you to type your details in and upload your CV or alternatively harvest through you directly emailing a CV. No job exists, they just want your personal information.
4. Fantasy Spare Time game – Some individuals create make-shift agencies advertising fake jobs because they want to run a recruitment agency (primarily they want to set up a business and see money in recruitment due to the large numbers of unemployed people) and are just testing the water. They don’t want to make money out of you or abuse your information, but they have no right in requesting information, pretending to be an agency, when one doesn’t really exist.

We also see adverse options where these so-called employers fail to leave their whois address visible (instead opting out as a non-trading individual for uk domains) or for non-uk domains pay for a service to hide/mask their real address. No genuine employer or agency would do either.

Fake Employers

Just part 1… there are so many its a lot of work going through them all. These were all caught in a 2 week time period (i.e. from 2 weeks ago until today) in Ipswich.

Business Name	Contact Methods	Owner/Names
Thomas Reilly Associates MF Training and Recruitment Solutions Que Consultants Jobs Junction Career Nationwide Recruitment 4 Office Retail Jobs 4U Career In Caring Find My New Job	thomas-reilly.co.uk mf-solutions.co.uk que-consultants.co.uk apply.que-consultants.co.uk cvapply.career-nationwide.co.uk retail-jobs4u.com cv.findmynewjob.co.uk (?)	Mark David Coward
Search Job Vacancies	searchjobvacancies.co.uk
UK Recruitment Service	UK-LOCALRECRUITMENT.COM
Anvia Management	http://www.anvia.co.uk
Jobs Ball	Jobsball.com jobsball.co.uk	Mohamed Amin Karolia
Job Ahoy!	Job-ahoy.co.uk	Mr Robert Belkin
JKB Group	jkbrecruitment.com	John Beesley
SP Recruitment	sp-recruitment.co.uk	Paul Kearey
GCS	Gcservice.co.uk	Mr Edmond Dutton
R & L Home Enterprises	rl-home-enterprises.co.uk
Agents4Jobs Ltd (doesn’t exist) and also Company Confidential	agents4jobs.com *CV Library affiliate*	MICHAEL WILLIAMS
Shine Distribution Shine Distribution Group	shinedistributiongroup.co.uk	Jacqui Reis
Improving Your Future Bye Distribution	improvingyourfuture.co.uk
C P N Distribution	earnbig.co.uk	Christopher Nichols
AJM Group	ajmgroup.org.uk	Ann Mayren
SKR Group	skrgroup.co.uk	Shirleyann Martin-Roxburgh
KRK Marketing	krkmarketing.co.uk	Karen Boardman
EG Marketing PK Prospekts	networkmarketing4u.co.uk pkprospekts.co.uk	Karen Hall
CIT (UK Staff Search Ltd)	ukstaffsearch.com
Strike Jobs	Strike-jobs.co.uk	Tobias Recruitment
Hunkin Distribution	hunkindistribution.co.uk
Infocus Group	incomeuwant.com	Gordon Whittington
Salian Group	my-new-life.co.uk	Arthur Williams
EPCRS	epcrs.co.uk	Julian Richens
Vision Focus Group	visionfocusgroup.co.uk	Stuart Heard
Askew Distribution	need-a-change.co.uk	Claire Askew
Tjgrecruitment TJG recruitment	tjgrecruitment.co.uk	Jeremy Simmonds
Endeavour Group Distribution	endeavourgroupdistribution.co.uk	Eileen French

Not complete!

Future Scam Addresses to look out for

Potential Future Scam Domains

2nd-income.co.uk

2ndincomefromhome.co.uk

4earnings.co.uk

4majorincome.co.uk

4realincome.co.uk

a-1.co.uk

a2ndincome.co.uk

betterincomes.co.uk

betterincomes.eu

betterlifestyle.co.uk

betterwealth.co.uk

biggermoney.co.uk

bighitters.co.uk

bigpaycheques.co.uk

changeurlifestyle.co.uk

cheques4life.com

crazymoney.co.uk

designermoney.co.uk

dream-incomes.co.uk

easyearn.co.uk

escape825.com

escaperatrace.co.uk

ezelife.co.uk

fabearner.co.uk

fabincomes.eu

fabulouslifestyle.co.uk

flpbusiness.co.uk

gold-mine.co.uk

good-income.co.uk

goodincomes.co.uk

great-incomes.co.uk

homeincomeopportunity.co.uk

hotmoney.co.uk

income-extra.co.uk

independentdistributor.co.uk

lovebusiness.co.uk

majorincomes.co.uk

makeincome.co.uk

megacash.co.uk

money-earner.co.uk

more-income.co.uk

mypayday.co.uk

networkmarketing.ie

newopportunity4u.co.uk

no1businessopportunity.co.uk

parttimeincome.co.uk

rapidincome.co.uk

readyincomes.co.uk

residualincomes.co.uk

richquick.co.uk

sparetimeincome.co.uk

superincome.co.uk

superlifestyle.co.uk

thelifestyle.co.uk

vast-incomes.co.uk

want-incomes.co.uk

you-earn.co.uk

yourincome.co.uk

How to spot a scam

• Highly replicated job adverts – so many of them repetitive of the same content over and over again, likely a scam
• Self-employed jobs in the millions – a self-employed position isn’t a job
• A website address (domain name) shouldn’t be tempting – if its about getting rich or easy money its a scam
• The words “Group” and “Distribution” are hot words used in the employer name of scams
• When you are clicking through a link to apply for a job – a real employer or agency wont be covered in adverts, wont ask you to upload a CV to third party websites (i.e. CV Library) and wont simply be a web form to input information and upload a CV.
• Temptations of income are never freely stated in real job adverts – they will tell you the salary but not remind you before applying
• “Big Advertising” and “Big Hosting” are phrases if you see, should carry the action of running away
• “No Boss – No Employees – No Stock  No Selling – No Debts – No Problems.” is a sign
• If you do a whois most scams are hosted on 1&1 (1and1) or Big Advertising

How you can help

You can help us by investigating Universal Jobmatch jobs that look dodgy too…

• Google the employer name
• Do a whois lookup on the domain name
• Do a reverse whois lookup on the registrants name, IP address or nameserver
• Do a company search for the company (if ends in Ltd, Limited, Plc, LLP) to see if it exists
• Report back here in the comments!